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by Sarah Newman, D.C.
HEADING FOR TROUBLE?
Soccer is an
excellent sport
that confers
many healt h
benefits.
However, there
is increasing
concern that
younger players
(in oarticular) Sarah Newman, D.C.
who "head"
the bail may be injuring themselves
as a result. According to a recent
small study, heading the bal leads
to changes in the white matter of
the brain (the fibers that make up
the brain's network wiring) that are
similar to those experienced with
traumatic brain injury or concussion.
As yet, researchers have not assessed
whether these changes in the brain
correspond to changes in cognitive
performance. The more a player uses
his or her head to strike the oall, the
greater the degree of changes in the
brain. Players are therefore advised to
minimize heading the ball.
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RS. Heading the ball in soccer places
stress on a Ùlayer's cervical spine,
which poses ootential consequences
of its own
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Divers
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[Lake] Limerick is you've got a little
bit of visibility," Reed said. "When
you've got a little bit of standoff
and you can see what's coming up
you get to do your mental check a
little earlier.
Assistant dive team leader Don
Spezza said hi s military experience
helps him deal with difficult dives.
"I had a lot of military experi-
ence -- I guess I have the right
mindset for it." Spezza said. "My
prior experience makes me look at
it as a duty that needs to be done."
Several members of the Mason
County team attended a recent
training session on being a member
of a search and rescue dive team.
At the event, they listened to a
series of lectures from Bill Heckler,
a dive team leader from Cleveland,
Ohio, who gave the divers many
pieces of advice through the day.
"People don't call us when every-
thing's great," he said. "They never
say the water's great come out for
a dive.
At difficult dives, like the week-
long search at Lake Limerick,
Heckler said there is always at
least one diver who has never seen
Courtesy pnoto
Bill Reed helped establish the Mason County Search and
Rescue Dive Team in 1998.
a dead body, or experienced quite
what they would that day. When
Sheldon Olsen's body was found,
team member Don Hageman was
that diver.
"This one at Lake Limerick was
the first body recovery I was actu-
ally at." he said. "It's sobering. It
makes me want to put lifejackets
on my kids."
While tragedies like the drown-
ings at Lake Limerick often get
the most attention, these instances
are actually rare, and interspersed
with other dive opportunities, some
for evidence, guns used in crimes,
or stolen cars.
The Mason County Search and
Rescue Dive Team is made up of
volunteers and is funded entirely
by grants and fundraisers.
While members of the communi-
ty have been generous at fundrais-
ers like the Hoodsport Polar Bear
Plunge, which Reed organizes, the
team is always looking for dona-
tions to fund equipment and con-
tinuing education.
Even with a generous commu-
nity, keeping a volunteer dive team
going can be a challenge.
"Its just time consuming and
with the economy the way it is it's
hard to go out and ask people," he
said. "Everyone's got a job for the
most part you're relying on those
who are off or who can break away
from their jobs."
In the end, dive team members
sacrifice their time off to serve
the county, and to provide closure
when no one else can.
"I like being able to help people
put closure to tragedies," team
member Garrett Landram said.
"This was a way for me to be able
to be in the public service."
Gardens
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May 16.
"We have proposed zoning regulations that
would allow collective gardens in most com-
mercial areas and some industrial areas within
the county and ... all three Urban Growth Ar-
eas," Barbara Adkins, Mason County director
of planning and community development said.
"While we don't have to accept the zoning regu-
lations we are prohibited from precluding col-
lective gardens."
Some of the proposed regulations include al-
lowing only one collective garden permit on a
property tax parcel and allowing the gardens
only in commercial and industrial zoning ar-
eas.
The regulations also specifically state that
a collective garden may not be located within
1,000 feet of a school of any kind, or within
1,000 feet of a youth center, swimming pool or
video arcade.
The requirements also include provisions
stating that collective gardens must be con-
tained within a building, that they must have
air filtration systems, be surrounded by a fence
of at least 10 feet and that the buildings must
have adequate fire suppression systems, among
other requirements.
The Planning Advisory Committee voted
3-1 with one abstention to propose the zoning
amendment to the county. According to Adkins.
three other counties have enacted moratoriums
on collective gardens and Lewis County is the
only county in the state to accept regulations
on medical marijuana.
Adkins said she used Lewis County's zoning
regulations to influence those she presented to
the commission Tuesday morning.
ESSB 5073 specifically allows up to 10 med-
ical marijuana patients to work together to
grow up to 45 cannabis plants for medical use
and possess up to 72 ounces of usable mari-
juana.
Governor Chris Gregoire vetoed sections Of
the bill that included language making medical
marijuana dispensaries legal. While those dis-
pensaries are illegal in both state and federal
law. many operate in Mason County.
"The reality is that they exist. The city of
Seattle has put them into their regulations be-
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Barbara Adkins, Mason County director of planning and community
development, asked the county commission to approve regulations and
zoning requirements for collective medical marijuana gardens in Mason
County. The commission voted against the proposal and extended a
moratorium on the gardens until November.
cause they are there," Adkins said.
It is unclear in state law whether a dispen-
sary can be considered a collective garden if
plants from a collective garden are brought
there to distribute to other qualifying patients,
she said.
"To some extent when you start dealing with
allowing the dispensaries that are not neces-
sarily in state code ... it could put you at a
higher legal risk," she said. "There are differ-
ing opinions about whether they can exist or
not exist. These are not questions for land-use
people."
In the end it didn't matter whether language
addressing dispensaries made it into the pro-
posed amendment to county zoning codes be-
cause the commission voted to continue the
moratorium and not accept the code amend-
ment.
"I have difficulty understanding how we
can have zoning regulations for something
that's illegal under federal law," Commission-
er Tim Sheldon said. "I think that continuing
the moratorium is in the county's best inter-
est."
Commissioners Lynda Ring Erickson and
Bloomfield echoed Sheldon's statement.
"Those (Revised Codes of Washington) RCWs
are subservient to the laws of the federal gov-
ernment," he said. "Presidents, governors, be-
lieve it or not even county commissioners have
been wrong before."
Hood Canal
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narrowed it down to six, and eventu-
ally three top candidates.
Last week. the school district an-
nounced its top three candidates to
take over as principal and super-
intendent for the 2012-2013 school
year.
The district held community fo-
rums on April 30, May 1 and May 2
to gather input from the public on the
three candidates.
Candidates besides Batsone in-
cluded Ellen Perconti, who serves as
the director of curriculum, assess-
ment and instruction at the Lewiston
Idaho School District and Gary Kee-
ler, an elementary school principal
in the Northsh0re School District in
BotheU/Woodinville.
Petersen said the application pro-
cess was fairly smooth.
"I think that we have really good
timing in this." she said before the
board offered Batstone the position•
"There are a lot of people out there
looking for a new position. A lot of
people have just come through the
superintendent certification process."
• The school board interviewed all
three candidates last week. Petersen
said Batstone stood out.
"They all had different aspects that
we certainly wanted to put together in
one package," she said. "He's just ex-
trememly energetic and charismatic.
He's very articulate. He's really into
unity and so I think he'll work really
hard to bring us all together."
Batstone should start at the Hood
Canal School District on July 1.
Skokomish
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should hear before kinder-
garten." Oliver said•
The winner will be an-
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winners will be presented
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with their bikes at the annual Head
Start picnic at Potlatch State Park
on May 24.
While contests are fun for kids
young and old, adults at Skokom-
ish Head Start said the goal of the
program is similar to the purpose of
head start - to give low-income kids
a chance to start kindergarten on an
even footing.
Joanna Reibel, disabilities and
education coordinator at Skokomish
Head Start said the curriculum at
head start is broader than most pre-
schools.
Children at head start get dental
and hearing screenings, are tested
for lead poisoning, as well as other
screenings, she said.
Parents can also take part in edu-
cation opportunities on topics such
as the importance of sleep and nutri-
tion.
The head start program also in-
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cludes mental
health screenings
and lessons on cop-
ing with stress for
the young students.
Because it is a
tribal program, head
start also offers cul-
tural lessons for its
students. For ex-
Donna ample, each student
Oliver who graduates from
head start this year
will sing a "canoe
song" at the ceremony, said Health
and Family Services Coordinator Ju-
lie LeClair.
Oliver said the program is run by
the Skokomish Tribe and is on the
reservation, but is open to all chil-
dren.
"This is a tribal program - a lot
of people think only Indian people go
here," she said. "It's actually about
half and half."
LeClair works
with Hood Canal
School to make sure
students are pre-
pared when they
transfer to Kinder-
garten.
"We want to make
sure there's no gaps
Julie in their education,"
LeClair she said. "(Reading)
is crucial we real-
ly want to push that
readiness."
While the results aren't in, Oliver
said the program has encouraged
reading.
"It's fun to have the children come
back and tell you about stories that
their guardian read to them," Oliver.
Skokomish Head Start has open
enrollment. To enroll, call LeClair at
877-9007.